Cross-head for logging pulley-blocks.



v M. 0. ASHTON. y GROSS HEAD FOR LOGGING PULLEY BLOCKS.

' APPLICATION FILEDJUNE 7, 1911.

1,025,668, Patented May 7, 1912.

' blocks to stumps,

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIoE.

MILLER G. ASHTON,

OF DOTY, WASHINGTON.

CROSS-HEAD FOR LOGGING PULLEY-BLOCKS.

"certain new and useful Improvements in Cross-Heads for LoggingPulley-Blocks,,of which the following is a specification.-

This invention relates to cross-heads for logging pulley blocks.

Cross-heads for attaching logging pulley trees, etc., have towithgreatstrain and twisting actions stand very of various kinds'due tothe course the cable with a yoke of new assumes under differentcircumstances.

The present invention has for its object the provision of a cross-headfor logging pulley blocks which will be of simple, strong, durable andinexpensive construction having a novel swivel connection for attachmentto the pulley block to permit the latter to turn or twist andthusprevent the cable or line from fouling and will be providedconstruction which may be readily opened or closed to admit theconvenient attachment of the anchoring chain or cable.

The invention is set forth fully hereinafter and its novel-features arerecited in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure'l is a plan view showing the linkclosed; Fig. 2, a section on line 2-42, Fig. l; and Fig. 3, aperspective view showing the parts detached.

The cross-head l is made from a solid piece of metal having anenlargement 2 provided with an opening 3 extending therethrough and alsoprovided with openings 4- .for the reception of pins by which the crosshead. is connected to the eyes on the pulley block.

The yoke '5 is provided with an integral swivel'G passing through theopening 3 and riveted or provided with a head 7, whereby Specificationof Letters Patent.

AppIication filed June 7, 1911.-

the yoke is swiveled to freely turn in relation to the cr0ss-head. Theyoke is pro Patented May 7, 1912. Serial No. 631,830.

vided with, two pairs of ears 8 and 9 dis posed in general angularrelation to each other, the former being provided with eyes 10, and thelatter with a pin 11 on which is pivoted, between the ears 9, a curvedlink l2-having a flattened part provided with an eye l3 adapted to passin between the ears 8 so that its eye will be in alinement-with the eyes10 for the convenient reception of a removable locking pin 14.

The cross-head; 1 having been suitably fastened to the pulley block, thepin 14 can be removed. and the link engaged with a chain or cablefastened around a permanent object such as a tree, after which the linkwill be secured by the pin. The pin may be provided with'a nut or cotteror any other means for preventing it from dropping out. The link beingheld securely, the yoke may turn therein as the pulley twistssaecordingpassing around Letters Patent, is A cross-head for logging blocks havingeyes for its connection to an object, a substantially Y -shaped yokewhose stem is swiveled to the eross-head and whose branches are providedwith ears, a one-piece loop-shaped swinging disposed between andpermanently pivoted to one pair of said ears and ts other end. free'a'ndadapted to be passed in between the pair of ears, and a removablefastening adapted to he passed through the ears last named and throughthe whereby the link may be swung. open without detachment on removingof said fastening. 1

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aflix signature in presence of twowitnesses.

MILLER C. ASHTON. Witnesses:

W. H. PnrLLlrs, T. B.'S1'ioHAM.

free end of the link,

link having one end i

